Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A POET'S EPITAPH, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poet's Biography First Line: Stop, mortal! Here thy brother lies Last Line: Who drew them as they are. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Variant Title(s): Burns Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers | ||||||||
STOP, mortal! Here thy brother lies,-- The poet of the poor. His books were rivers, woods, and skies, The meadow and the moor; His teachers were the torn heart's wail, The tyrant, and the slave, The street, the factory, the jail, The palace,--and the grave! Sin met thy brother everywhere! And is thy brother blamed? From passion, danger, doubt, and care He no exemption claimed. The meanest thing, earth's feeblest worm, He feared to scorn or hate; But, honoring in a peasant's form The equal of the great, He blessed the steward, whose wealth makes The poor man's little more; Yet loathed the haughty wretch that takes From plundered labor's store. A hand to do, a head to plan, A heart to feel and dare, -- Tell man's worst foes, here lies the man Who drew them as they are. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CELL, SELECTION by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 126: THE DOUBTING MAN by LYN HEJINIAN WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP by JANE HIRSHFIELD COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS by RICHARD HOWARD DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD by RANDALL JARRELL LET THEM ALONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON BUILDING WITH STONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS BATTLE SONG by EBENEZER ELLIOTT |
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